Thanks for the link. It seems like a nice program, but unless the Creator program is available, to convert ebooks into Thout format, it is not really much use. And I can't seem to find ThoutCreator anywhere
That's why I wondered what had happened to the company, and whether anyone else had taken over this reader.

Looks like this program is a dead 'un....ah well, back to FBReader (which is a cracking program, BTW !)

It's just seems that all the ebook programs I've looked at only display text, apart from the title page. Or is it that sites`only produce ebooks in text only ?

ePub is used by the Sony Reader and Barnes and Noble nook ebook readers, and may become the standrd format for ebooks. Specs for the format are here: http://www.idpf.org/specs.htm

Mobipocket is the format used by the Amazon Kindle (Amazon owns Mobipocket), and a view app is avaialble for a number of platforms. It's essentially an encapsulated dubdet of HTML. Mobi is here: http://www.mobipocket.com/en/HomePage/default.asp?Language=EN

Plucker format was a big win for me, Plucker is an offline HTML reasder for Palm OS devices. The Plucker desktop that creates files viewable on the handheld is is cross-platform, written in Python, and available for Windows, Mac OS/X, and Linux. I have about 3,00 volumes in Plucker format and it was lovely to be able to read then under Puppy. (I have all the Gnu Linux HOW-TOs in Plucker format, for example.) Plucker is here: http://www.plkr.org/

Note that if DRM is involved, all bets are off. FBReader can't read secure books purchased from a commercial site.

With FBReader and a PDF viewer, you've covered most of the ebook bases.

There is a Puppy port of FBReader 0.12.1 posted elswhere in the forums.
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Dennis

liblinebreak and the fbreader zlibrary (not libz) are compiled in statically for reduced size and increased speed

I also optimized the png files, and created symlinks to duplicates, optimized the build for size and switched the theme a bit

The "en" version has non-english files removed

Thank you!

I also just found another option - Cool Reader. http://coolreader.org/e-index.htm

Cool Reader v2 was Windows specific. CoolReader 3 is open source, and there's a DEB file of v3.14 available on SourceForge. The homepage says it supports .txt, .doc, .html, .fb2 or .rtf formats, but the 3.X version also handles ePub.

I think calibre is really the cat's meow. Amazing piece of application software. You hardly even need a manual. I have started to use it to load my NOOK with epub, and I've converted from quite a few other formats. And, yes, it functions as a reader also.

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